He commented on the Bhutto family dynastic approach to passing on the leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and in a lecture at the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute - ZABIST in Karachi in 2004 he supported Pervez Musharaff's coup against Nawaz Sharif on the grounds that Pakistani, like other third world countries did not necessarily nor could necessasrily work within a Western style Athenian democracy, rather a hybrid "Danda" Democracy was needed - that is "stick" Democracy.